Monthly Archives: May 2016

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has sold off its entire $187m investment in BP. There’s no word from them on why, but it certainly looks like the foundation is quietly getting out of fossil fuel companies. Since 2014, it has dropped 85% of such investments it had held.

Bill Gates says he’s not keen on the divestment argument but we know that the pressure you’ve put on the foundation through Keep it in the Ground – as well as the folks at Gates Divest in Seattle and the wider divestment movement – has been having an impact behind the scenes.

There was also good news from around Europe this week. Portugal ran for four days straight on renewable energy alone and last Sunday, Germany powered almost all its electricity needs from clean sources. There was so much renewable energy on the grid that at several times in the day, power prices turned negative – effectively paying consumers to use it.

if you visited the Bungendore Harvest Festival this weekend, we'd love to hear your feedback, good and bad, about the Bungendore Harvest Festival so we can make next year's event bigger and better. Th...

Have you seen AGL's new shiny piece of spin? Australia's biggest polluter is giving their image a new greenwash to hide the fact that they plan to burn coal until 2050 - that's another 33 years!
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